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Guitar Tab Maker Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About Guitar Tab Maker

A straightforward editor for guitar tabs. Quickly transcribe and edit your tabs on any iOS or macOS device.

• Use iCloud to automatically sync across devices
• Export to PDF and GTAB for sharing and backup
• Designed specifically for guitar tabs
• Bass, ukulele, and 7- and 8-string also supported
• Many more enhancements are in the works. Send requests to kyle@kylegorlick.com

Minimal advertisements are shown in the app -- only when creating a new tab or duplicating an existing tab. Purchase Premium to remove these ads. Your support is much appreciated.

Thank you!

What's New in the Latest Version 4.3

Last updated on Mar 25, 2024

Old Versions

- Adjust add tab row ability so you can now insert wherever or at the bottom of the currently visible tabs
- Ability to increase lyrics size up to 120% of the default size
- Minor bug fixes & improvements

Version History

4.3

Mar 25, 2024

4.2.1

Feb 20, 2024

- Fix crash during audio playback with certain custom tunings
- Basic audio playback support for ostrich tunings

4.2

Jan 29, 2024

- Ability to delete custom chord shortcuts (with a long press)
- Increase max audio playback speed
- Ability to loop audio playback of tab
- Minor improvements to audio playback
- Bug fixes

4.1

Jan 15, 2024

- Avoid crash when magic selecting a column header without any tab content
- Skip bars during audio playback
- Bug fixes for audio playback with non-standard tunings

4.0

Dec 7, 2023

- Minor improvements

3.6

Dec 4, 2023

- Fix audio playback for All Fourths, Open C, and Open F tunings
- Don't reset audio playback speed every time View Mode is accessed
- Other minor improvements

3.4.1

Oct 26, 2023

- Minor tweaks

3.4

Sep 27, 2023

- Avoid dimming of iPhone screen while on View Mode of a tab
- Minor bug fixes & improvements

3.3.5

Aug 4, 2023

- Fix bugs with bars on 7/8-string tabs
- txt exports should respect what you have showing/hiding on the tab before export

3.3.4

Aug 3, 2023

Improved layout of chord shortcuts on small phone with display zoom turned on

3.3.3

Jul 18, 2023

- Fix for intro being a black box in exported PDF (if done from dark mode)
- Fix background color of tabs list (dark mode)

3.3.2

Jul 3, 2023

- Fix for "Show Notes On Tab" notes being incorrect on tab View Mode

3.3.1

Apr 16, 2023

- Fix some issues with GTAB (.gtab) imports and give better feedback when unsuccessful.

3.3

Apr 7, 2023

- Fix for pdf exports not showing column headers (chord names) in dark mode
- Add a "share" button to app menu
- Improve resolution of pdf exports

3.2.1

Feb 1, 2023

Minor fixes & improvements

3.2

Jan 31, 2023

- Ability to add an intro text at top of tabs
- More seamless vertical display & scrolling
- Ability to set default number of strings
- Ability to hide column headers in edit mode
- "Free scroll" option for iPads
- And more

3.1

Jan 18, 2023

- Minor bug fixes and improvements
- Audio playback to play sound even if on vibrate (View Mode only)

3.0

Jan 8, 2023

The BIG update we've all been waiting for:
• Audio playback of your tabs
• Ability to reduce lyrics font size and add multiple lines of lyrics
• Ability to add chord names along the top of the tab
• These flexible column headers can also be used for PM, TH, TP, etc
• Many improvements to View Mode allowing for greater view flexibility
• These view improvements are also applied to PDF exports
• More chord shortcuts including support for any number of strings
• And a bunch more!

Thank you!

2.5

Sep 18, 2022

-fix a bug when entering custom tunings where the dialog would suddenly close
-add the "All fourths" tuning preset

2.4

Aug 7, 2022

-ability to override phone settings for light/dark mode
-"insert bar" button will remove bar if bar already there

2.3.3

Apr 14, 2022

-fix for iPad crash when trying to save the result from "Back-up All Tabs"

2.3.2

Jan 18, 2022

-fix for deleting tabs in Deleted folder

2.3.1

Jan 16, 2022

-fix "show notes on tab" for custom tunings
-change default column count to 32 from 30

2.3

Jan 16, 2022

-no more ads... instead there are "delay dialogs" when creating new tabs (gotta encourage Premium somehow!)
-bonus bug fixes
-minor usability improvements

2.2

Jan 13, 2022

-ability to change number of frets on fretboard
-minor fixes & improvements

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